Alpine skiing
Justin Murisier’s long wait is over
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Justin Murisier takes his first podium in the World Cup in Alta Badia. After many injuries, this is a great satisfaction for the Valaisan. Marco Odermatt is fourth.
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Ten years of waiting is enough. Justin Murisier is on a World Cup podium for the first time in Alta Badia.
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If you have speculated in recent years about what Justin Murisier would still be able to achieve in his career, many experts were unanimous of the opinion that the Valaiser was closer to retiring after all the health setbacks than to still causing a stir in the World Cup to care. The mortgage, which among other things had charged Murisier with three cruciate ligament tears, seemed too big.
He has proven that the 28-year-old is a fighter and stressed several times that he would not step down before he had made it to the podium at least once in the World Cup. If it were up to this premise, Murisier could now hang up his skis.
Zubcics Rückfall
After ten years in the World Cup, he made it into the top 3 for the first time in Alta Badia. Started with the eleventh fastest time in the first run, he drove in a controlled manner but with a lot of traction in the second, so that one after the other had to position themselves behind Murisier. When the Croatian Filip Zubcic finally dropped from second to tenth place, it was clear that Murisier’s long wait would be over.
Marco Odermatt, who has always been on the podium in the three previous giant slaloms of the season, also fell four hundredths behind his teammates. He lost 28 hundredths to winner Alexis Pinturault, who celebrated his first win on the Gran Risa ahead of the young Norwegian Atle Lie McGrath.
Snappy with the best result
Gino Caviezel and Semyel Bissig were ranked 13th at the same time and rounded off the strong team result of Swiss Ski. Bissig made it into the second run in 26th place with starting number 45. Thanks to a strong final section, the Nidwalden made up place after place in the second round. In the end, thanks to this 13th place, there was a new record in the giant slalom. At the beginning of December he was 16th in Santa Caterina for the first time in the World Cup points.
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